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Original Title:	The Neon Rain
ISBN:	0753820331 (ISBN13: 9780753820339)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dave Robicheaux #1
Characters:	Dave Robicheaux
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) Louisiana(United States)

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Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.

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Title	:	The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux #1)
Author	:	James Lee Burke
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 285 pages
Published	:	2005 by Phoenix (first published 1987)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Detective. Noir

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A Twitter pal talked me into starting these books and I'm glad she did. My husband and I went on a trip to New Orleans in 1995, (so pre-Katrina), and I loved it. To this day it was the best vacation we ever had and the very best food I ever ate. We went shortly after Mardi Gras and it was warm and beautiful. We visited the zoo and botanical gardens, had lunch on the banks of the Mississippi, rode a street car through the garden district and had dinner in the French Quarter. This book took me

I bought about five copies of the hard cover and passed them out to my friends. This is an amazingly good book. Got Mr. Burke to sign my copy. Now I kind of wish I would have kept a couple as the first edition sell for between $300 and $500 dollars in good shape, but at the time I enjoyed the book so much I wanted to have every one I know read it.

Everyone says too many books, too little time. I'm changing it to too many great writers, too little time. The first book I read by James Lee Burke was Wayfaring Stranger. I read it before it was published in July of 2014 because I received an advance reading copy from the publisher. It was an unbelievably good book and I wanted to read more from this author. So here it is August of 2017 and I have just finished my second book by James Lee Burke. How could I let so many years go by without

I know of an acquiring editor who ran a board for new authors who not only counted Burke a favorite, but recommended him as an example of a beautiful prose style. From the almost 60 pages I got through, I can understand that. I didn't abandon this novel because I thought the writing anything less than top notch. The dialogue seems authentic and distinctive, there are descriptions of Louisiana that are evocative and lyrical coming through the first person narrative. This isn't rated two stars

Enjoy detective fiction?, they asked.Read a Dave Robicheaux book., they said.So I did.And now I have a problem. I feel both soiled and exhilarated in equal measure.This is some good detective fiction, but damn is it gritty. I regret nothing.

3.5After reading six Holland Family novels I just had to start this series. I began with a bit of trepidation because I knew those books would be a hard act to follow. Here's what happened.It took me right back to New Orleans which I visited about the time the novel was written.It opened a hardcore window into a mans soul as he daily struggles to say no to the siren call of alcoholism.It brought back all the reasons I participated in anti-Vietnam War marches, though I really had no honest clue

Your prosecuted, tried and convicted. The court sentences you to be exiled for five years on a deserted island. No TV. No YouTube. No Britney Spear's poster (a hardship for many of you).You are allowed a Kindle and a hand cranked device to keep it charged. Then you are told, "Pick one author!"Vince Flynn. T. Jefferson Parker. Lee Child. Stephen Cannell. Robert Crais. Michael Connelly. John Sanford. All these authors pass through my head in an instant. What the hell. How can I only be allowed one